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Of course fossil-fuel-funded flotillas of phony front groups will be there to instruct the Court, where they have a 100% success rate.
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Of course next is the Court attacking climate litigation, finishing the free-to-pollute trifecta for the billionaire polluters who put them there.
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(Of course the “major questions” notion was cooked up in fossil-fuel-funded doctrine factories, purpose-built by and for polluters.)
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Of course the Clean Power Plan and “major questions” cases signaled the end of climate regulation as the Court intruded to blockade.
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Of course Citizens United signaled the end of climate legislation, as unlimited fossil fuel dark money was brought to bear on Congress.
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Of course Roberts and Alito, who also delivered Citizens United and dark money, were in the thick of it.
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Of course the roots of the “shadow docket” are in service to the fossil fuel billionaires who captured the Court. 🧵
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html
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Pity that all he can do is read it, and not take it in.
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/17/trump-scripture-angering-christians-00879747
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Not enough to pollute for free; fossil fuel gets Republicans AGs to provide taxpayer-funded free legal service. Ghoulish levels of greed.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/climate/hawaii-climate-lawsuit-dismissed.html
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When you’re on both sides, you can dictate the result. This is the DOJ “ice cream window” that pays off MAGA lawsuits, on conflict-of-interest steroids.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/17/trump-tax-leak-lawsuit/
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Trump/Russia rears its ugly head again.
quote:at://did:plc:xjc7mkotpenvhh6ffewkdpyn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjqaq7g53k23
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Stooge Patel getting sloshed at the “Poodle Room” in Vegas? You simply cannot make this up!! Too good. Start the clock.
quote:at://did:plc:nyxviptfyic2lvuorkr5yy3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjq5cqrkbf26
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Trump is extracting money from families’ budgets and pumping it to his fossil fuel donors.
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Glad to celebrate the opening of the South Shore Station 3 EMS Facility in South Kingstown today. This new station is expected to save lives by cutting emergency response times by half for the southern part of town.
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Worthy piece, particularly describing Trump’s dark blather as “the photographic negative of the Sermon on the Mount.”
link:https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-meets-his-match-in-pope-leo-7558687a
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Trump tries to stop this low-cost solar power, so electric grids have to go to expensive dirty fossil plants, raising consumer prices, by (PUNCHLINE) driving money from regular ratepayers to Trump’s big fossil fuel donors. But clean energy keeps winning!!
link:https://www.utilitydive.com/news/solar-wind-gas-coal-eia-energy-outlook/817315/
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Oh, and ICYMI, the subjects of the contempt proceeding would likely include MAGA’s own Emil Bove, raced through Senate confirmation hearings onto the Third Circuit during the first MAGA blockade of the contempt proceedings. MAGA defends MAGA at all costs.
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It’s a helluva stretch to use mandamus (again), and it’s the second blockade by MAGA judges, even after the full court had cleared the judge to proceed with the contempt inquiry.
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More MAGA mischief: two MAGA Trump judges again interrupt a contempt inquiry into MAGA DOJ, before the proceedings even take place. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/us/politics/deportation-flights-trump-contempt.html
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PolluterPage prints piece calling Trump “desperate, deranged”; administration “losers,” and war as “ill-conceived, ill-planned, ill-executed and, so far, failing.”
link:https://www.wsj.com/opinion/for-now-at-least-the-iran-war-seems-to-be-failing-832a0e60
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It’s true that a president with significant mental health issues would leave adversaries “on edge.” As America loses.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/us/politics/trump-mental-fitness-25th-amendment.html
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Trump would rather fight with the Pope than lower costs. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/12/trump-criticizes-pope-leo/
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Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. Decency and democracy win BIG! Trump/Vance/Rubio big LOSERS. Hurray Hungary!!
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Well, at least they’re self-aware. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
link:https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-promises-mass-pardons-to-staff-before-leaving-office-d7274d32
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I wish I didn’t feel that Trump’s team were the dumbest three in the room. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/04/12/iran-us-talks-ceasefire-vance/
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Great news! Fossil fuel corruption can’t stop cheaper, cleaner, more reliable renewables, even with Trump’s little orange thumb pressing down on the scales to pay off his big fossil fuel donors. www.newsweek.com/americas-pow...
link:https://www.newsweek.com/americas-power-supply-just-flipped-in-surprising-direction-11805184
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Hooo-weee, those creepy fossil fuel billionaires are going to take good care of this little stooge for life! I guess everyone has their price. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/04/08/epa-lee-zeldin-heartland-speech/
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Run into ground by incompetents and looters who now need to close the Center for “repairs” as cover. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/04/10/kennedy-center-layoffs-trump-closure/
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And this needed to be brought up now because . . . ???
quote:at://did:plc:eclio37ymobqex2ncko63h4r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj3j6rn72p2n
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Polluters celebrate “consequential” Trump EPA. “Consequences” are dirtier water and air and rapidly worsening economic dangers. Sick stuff.
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/09/at-climate-contrarian-gathering-allies-urge-trump-to-keep-zeldin-at-epa-00864114
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Iran and our Gulf allies seem to think Iran won.
link:https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/gulf-states-fear-an-emboldened-iran-after-trumps-cease-fire-a7becf78?st=Sm4bL6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Well done, Brown! You can’t do better than that!! www.brown.edu/news/2026-04...
link:https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-04-08/hugh-clements-public-safety-chief
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Kash Patel’s “public” grand jury testimony was anything but.
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Enough climate hushing. Democrats need to fight.
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The fossil fuel industry is probably the biggest fraud apparatus in the history of mankind. It should be joyous to take that machine down. #EEODayRI
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Swap Putin for Orban here: “Orbán has been with the president for a very long time. He was with him through the trials and tribulations, through the entire campaign.”
link:https://www.politico.eu/article/last-throw-of-maga-dice-for-viktor-orban-jd-vance/
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An aged and compromised Commander-in-Chief is losing his grip on reality, increasing dangers at home and for our brave troops overseas. Threatening to inflict massive civilian casualties is un-American; the stuff of cruel dictators. Republicans should no longer stand idly by.
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An administration official is calling Trump "bloodthirsty, like a mad dog." When will Republican spines of foam stiffen?
link:https://www.axios.com/2026/04/07/trump-iran-deadline-bridges-power-plants
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When Putin is brought up on war crimes charges, he will be able to say, “The United States did it too.” Trump/Russia/Epstein.
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I wouldn’t put it past Trump to bomb a power station in Iran just to give Vladimir Putin cover for his relentless energy terror against Ukraine. s2.washingtonpost.com/473e494/69d4...
link:https://s2.washingtonpost.com/473e494/69d41fd3770ff71a44bacb68/5972c092ade4e21a8483291a/4/13/69d41fd3770ff71a44bacb68
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The East Bay Bike Path is a Rhode Island gem that was in need of some repair. @reed.senate.gov and I secured federal funding for new bridges that once again allow riders to smoothly traverse the entire East Bay.
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For Sale: Trump gives data centers “some PR help” with a “pledge” that has no binding enforcement mechanism.
link:https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/energy-industry-greets-white-house-data-center-deal-with-a-shrug/
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Trump is looking around at the mess that he’s made and is trying to figure out how to throw the election.
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Good article. I visited the same factory and was equally impressed.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/30/ukraine-russia-putin-zelensky-drones/?utm_campaign=wp_week_in_ideas&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=week_in_ideas&utm_term=jtk-flex-day
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Pope Leo challenges “the abuses that crush the weakest among us, the idolatry of profit that plunders the Earth’s resources, the violence of war that kills and destroys.”
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My intel is that Trump administration used Orban to help sabotage the EU’s Russian-assets-to-Ukraine deal. More Trump/Russia.
link:https://www.politico.eu/article/operation-save-viktor-orban-us-donald-trump-deploys-jd-vance-hungary/
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Wishing a very happy and peaceful Easter to all who celebrate!
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Post and Courier doing good work catching Trump/Epstein Files gaps. Well done. www.postandcourier.com/news/fbi-wit...
link:https://www.postandcourier.com/news/fbi-witness-jeffrey-epstein-sc/article_5a467072-e68c-44fa-91a5-7b509ff6949c.html
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TrumpSpeak: “hoax” means real for sure; “full confidence” means start packing; “obliterated” means still there.
link:https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/politics/iran-missiles-us-military-strikes-trump