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So what to do? Defend and expand the global pollution price in the EU CBAM, recently joined by the UK — it’s likely our last lifeboat. Waivers for Canada, Australia and California would be good. Asap, we need a U.S. “polluter pay” price on emissions.
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Three: The death grip of fossil fuel influence on our politics must be broken. In the United States, fossil fuel dark money post-Citizens United has corrupted and disabled climate governance, and climate denial fraud has polluted climate discourse.
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Two: The leading edge of climate havoc is already upon us in markets. Markets predict. Whole regions are becoming uninsurable, with mortgages becoming unavailable, and hits to global real estate as big as $25 trillion are predicted. Buckle up.
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One: We will fail on climate if pollute-for-free persists as fossil fuel’s business model. Offloading trillions in harm to humankind has always been wrong, morally and economically. It’s now lethal to any prospect of climate safety. It must end.
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There is much to be said and done about climate change, but three essentials must guide us. 🧵
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This is the kind of thug behavior creepy billionaires and their government stooges resort to when it looks like the people are going to reclaim their power. Democracy? Or government-by-billionaire? That’s the choice. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/10/23/doj-seeks-block-alaska-senate-result-if-republican-incumbent-narrowly-loses/
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Of course it does. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/23/supreme-court-student-ids-new-hampshire-midterms
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Always Trump/Russia, Trump/Russia, Trump/Russia. Now Russia is interfering for Trump in U.S. elections. Probably with his blessing. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/u...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/us/texas-senate-race-russia-influence.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Every remaining scenario for climate safety shows overshoot, so carbon capture is needed — and so is carbon pricing. Fossil fuel being allowed to pollute for free is now lethal to climate safety. Period. It’s price or fail. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-21/un-warns-major-emissions-cuts-needed-to-limit-warming-overshoot
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We must protect our historic democracy from devolving into government-by-creepy-billionaire. By the people, for the people, of the people. www.politico.com/live-updates...
link:https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/10/22/congress/more-musk-money-01133454
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What is it with billionaires and taxes? What change in his lifestyle would these taxes cause? Would the guy even notice? What, he doesn’t have enough money already? www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/21/zuckerberg-considered-leaving-ca-over-wealth-tax-meta-says-01131087
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Remember their courthouse fiasco? Confusing a high-schooler with a thirty-something? Violating agreement with court and courthouse rules? Threatening a judge (while he was parked in judges-only spot, which to some would be a clue)? www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/21/m...
link:https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/21/metro/ice-agents-try-to-arrest-father-as-he-holds-children/"
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Call it a metaphor. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Glad she noticed.
link:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/justice-elena-kagan-accuses-conservative-majority-undermining-democrac-rcna604673
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It looks like it may be worse than just betrayal; it looks like betrayal plus crooked side deals for Trump and cronies.
link:https://www.reuters.com/world/dmitriev-says-russian-wealth-fund-will-work-with-us-payment-diesel-deal-2026-10-16/
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Based on Ukraine, it looks like Trump would have sided with Hitler, not England — no Band of Brothers, no Greatest Generation, no American Century.
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Another cost increase fossil fuel emissions foist on us; add car insurance and it’s worse. For some families it’s worse: no insurance to be had. No insurance means no mortgages, which usually means lost home value.
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-20/home-insurance-tops-property-taxes-in-squeeze-for-us-households
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The question of regulatory misbehavior against clean energy does need to be resolved before Democrats will vote for this bill. This misbehavior sends all the wrong signals.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/10/14/permitting-reform-deal-imperiled-by-move-kill-offshore-wind-project/
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I just love her band. :-) youtu.be/zfaVCiyyqTQ?...
link:https://youtu.be/zfaVCiyyqTQ?si=3qKsHqL2wXRtxpep
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This is lawsuit five by agents. They’re mostly stalled over motions to dismiss, but if they get past that to discovery, Patel is going to have a lot more trouble than from lying to Congress with Republicans who won't call out lies. apnews.com/article/fire...
link:https://apnews.com/article/fired-fbi-agents-lawsuit-trump-patel-maralago-69d3544a73ddcdb54f164807adde85ea
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Always, always, always with these guys it’s the thing that benefits Russia. Trump/Russia, anyone? www.ft.com/content/5435...
link:https://www.ft.com/content/54353d3a-afed-4fec-985a-50f3dfb9be8e?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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The Court That Dark Money Built still responds to dark money, through flotillas of dark-money-funded front groups that file orchestrated “amicus” briefs — and they win pretty much every time. It’s a racket. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
link:https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/supreme-court-amicus-briefs-investigation/
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Best wishes for full and speedy recovery to Pope Leo as he returns home from the hospital.
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Putin bombs maternity hospitals; Trump claims Ukraine’s attacks on the refineries fueling Putin’s war machine are a “disgrace.” It’s sick. www.bbc.com/news/article...
link:https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c58jz174w89ro
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Trump/Russia was no hoax. apnews.com/article/russ...
link:https://apnews.com/article/russia-sanctions-trump-ukraine-e50c561ab805883bb4e484c092d8fadd
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More on the creepy billionaires desperately grabbing at power over our beloved country. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/16/republican-super-pac-donors-musk-uihlein-yass-01122941"
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For another voice, read Gunther Thallinger’s warning when he was on the board of Allianz. www.weforum.org/stories/clim...
link:https://www.weforum.org/stories/climate-action-and-waste-reduction/financial-system-warning-climate-nature-stories-this-week
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At last some attention to the looming Great Climate Insurance Collapse, and its cascade into mortgage, real estate and financial markets. www.forbes.com/sites/davidr...
link:https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2026/10/16/insiders-warn-insurers-climate-retreat-could-spark-2008-style-crash/
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Another insurance whistleblower warns of climate risk: “the long-term effects will be compounded as insurers withdraw from entire regions, leaving the economy in freefall and people’s day-to-day lives in ruins.” Time to wake up. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
link:https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-10-14/insurance-industry-climate-crisis-secret-source"
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They have abandoned any pretense that any of this is non-political. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/judiciary-...
link:https://nominationnotes.substack.com/p/judiciary-republicans-plan-to-break"
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This is a big deal. No paths to climate safety remain, unless we end pollute-for-free. The only global price is EU CBAM carbon tariff — our last lifeboat. Australia, Canada, Mexico and others should negotiate admission. (California should get a waiver.) www.politico.eu/article/uk-e...
link:https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-eu-reach-brexit-agreement-link-carbon-emission-trading-systems/"
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As always in Trumpland: no conflict, no interest. The reek of corruption is gagging the American public, but elected Republicans don’t dare utter a squeak. www.reuters.com/business/med...
link:https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-donor-leading-caucasus-fund-has-major-armenia-holdings-russia-business-2026-10-15/
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This would be the better strategy, for honor, for decency, and for peace. www.politico.eu/article/ukra...
link:https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-fm-andrii-sybiha-russias-war-budget-makes-the-case-for-using-frozen-assets-now/
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Another rotten idea to help the war criminal. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
link:https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-considers-easing-sanctions-shadow-fleet-vessels-cut-freight-rates-official-2026-10-15/
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Professor Shaw is exactly right, and a full accounting of how (and how badly) the Supreme Court has gone off course will emphasize the need for reforms like actual ethics review and proper term limits. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/opinion/supreme-court-reform-democrats.html
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Oops. Little problem for Republicans: what’s driving the expanding home insurance crisis is climate change creating uninsurable risks, and their big fossil fuel donors forbid them to talk about that.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/us/politics/home-insurance-extreme-weather-elections.html
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Hmmm. Does she join the Loomer/Taylor-Green “Hell hath no” furies? Gotta burn to be ousted for corruption by this crowd.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/10/13/kimberly-guilfoyle-asked-resign-by-white-house-new-press-secretary-says
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To paraphrase Pope Francis: “God always forgives; humankind will sometimes forgive; but Nature does not forgive. Slap her, and she will slap you back.” Now comes the slap-back fossil fuel has caused.
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Made in Rhode Island. youtube.com/shorts/kGjqi...
link:https://youtube.com/shorts/kGjqiVhp0ZA?si=E6z9S9kn8hdnXy5Q
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More and more, fossil fuel pollution is taking away the things and places people love. Who can put a price on that? www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10...
link:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/10/the-death-of-salmon-fishing/
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Trump is raising electricity costs by blocking low-cost clean energy, forcing grids to meet demand with high-cost fossil fuel units. Sucks for you; but Trump’s corrupt big fossil fuel donors make a bundle.
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Thank you, Admiral.
link:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/public-execution-nidal-hasan/688970/
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Yup. “The bipartisan legislation, unveiled last week, represents the most aggressive response yet from Washington to data centers amid growing backlash over their energy and environmental impacts.”
link:https://www.axios.com/2026/10/08/data-centers-power-regime
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Putin throws lifeline to try to save Trump in the midterms. In return, American dollars go to Russia and get put toward killing innocent Ukrainians. Trump/Russia right out in the open. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
link:https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16197455/putin-trump-diesel-supply.html