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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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I’ve called attention to right-wing efforts to capture the courts to do Trump’s political favors. But what happens when those courts don’t do as he wishes? I’m headed to the Senate floor for my 36th Scheme speech.
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A Senator makes a truthful statement, protected by First Amendment and Speech/Debate Clause, and gets investigated by DOJ. An ICE agent shoots and kills an unarmed mom, and they won’t even cooperate with local law enforcement.
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COST: Home insurance costs are up 8.2% in one year as climate risk roils markets. That cascades into mortgage/real estate markets, so buckle up. CORRUPTION: The fossil fuel industry’s climate denial fraud has real costs to Americans, and Republicans going along with the fraud are accountable.
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Still reveling in yesterday’s victory against the crooked Trumpsters and their bogus anti-wind efforts.
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Gates finally admits that without a global carbon price, we will fail on climate, then says it’s unachievable, ignoring that CBAM exists.
link:https://www.fastcompany.com/91472162/bill-gates-funds-many-green-energy-tech-solutions-but-he-says-true-climate-action-really-needs-this-to-succeed
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No surprise. MAGA DOJ is constantly getting crushed in court. For good reason. Always the question: gangster, or gong show? BTW: Incompetence is not usually cured by demanding the incompetents work faster.
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Crooked Trumpsters’ bogus effort to stop offshore wind blew up in federal court today. Stopping clean energy raises customers’ costs, but the money goes to fossil fuel power plants (aka Trump’s big donors). The corrupt scam took a beating today in court.
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If they can do it to Venezuela, they can do it to Russia. Closing off Russia’s shadow fleet oil revenue, and starting to seize Russia’s frozen assets for Ukraine, would bring Putin to the table pronto.
link:https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/u-s-forces-board-fifth-tanker-in-campaign-to-track-down-venezuelan-oil-08d1721f
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There’s a recording.
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.@smith.senate.gov: "Hours after Renee Good was shot and killed by federal agents, Kristi Noem was already telling us exactly what had happened. They were calling her a domestic terrorist before they even knew what her name was."
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This tragedy deserves a thorough and fair investigation, but sadly with this administration at the helm, I have little faith that Kash Patel will get to the bottom of this. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/08/minnesota-ice-shooting-protests/
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ICE is increasingly acting outside the realm of accountability and undermining what’s left of public trust.
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“The U.S. added 50,000 jobs last month, slowest annual growth in a non-recession year since 2003, and significantly lower than the final year of Joe Biden’s presidency when two million jobs were added.”
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I know a company that was going to expand manufacturing in the U.S. but had to reconsider because of tariffs on manufacturing equipment it needed.
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Trump/Russia? Greenland gambit attacks NATO, as Putin wants. Venezuela gambit emboldens Putin on Ukraine, may be a de facto swap. Support for EU far right aligns with Putin. Please let’s not pretend there’s no Trump/Russia happening.
link:https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-top-leaders-rally-defend-greenland-against-trump-threats-us/
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What began with a bold military/intelligence feat (much credit to our professionals) is already souring as Trump fossil fuel corruption intrudes. They can’t help themselves.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/05/trump-venezuela-maduro-regime-change/
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So Trump’s henchmen, Zeldin, Burgum and Wright, lie about the cost savings and try to blockade clean energy, in a massive scam to pay back his big fossil fuel donors out of utility customers’ pockets, through raised electricity rates. Don’t be fooled!
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But there’s a problem: Trump’s big fossil fuel donors don’t want to lose that revenue as their expensive plants get idled, and their fossil fuel dealers don’t want to lose the revenue from selling them the polluting fossil fuels. They paid good money to elect Trump!
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Why is that true? Because clean offshore wind displaces higher-cost fossil fuel plants that would otherwise have to run. Great for utility customers, to the tune of “hundreds of millions of dollars each year”!