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By forcing votes on nominees like Blanche, Trump is dragging Senate Rs down with him.
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23 zettajoules is the latest measure of excess heat into oceans caused by fossil fuel: 23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules Entire human energy production = 1/2 a zettajoule.
link:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/global-ocean-temperatures-are-entering-uncharted-territory-climate-scientists-say/
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Blanche’s word has no credibility with me.
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All that extra money Trump is making families pay by stomping on low-cost-to-drive EVs (never mind the damage to U.S. auto industry in international competition, where EV sales are soaring and China dominates).
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2026/07/13/heres-how-much-money-ev-drivers-are-saving-your-state/
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Good TACO, this time.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/07/14/oil-prices-jump-after-trumps-threats-strait-hormuz/
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Rubio, three weeks ago: “No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway.” Trump, yesterday: the U.S. will charge a 20 percent fee on maritime cargo through Strait of Hormuz. So much for the principle of freedom of navigation. China is watching.
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Well, I told you to watch the Florida proceedings about whether a “fraud on the court” was committed in the slush fund case, and we now have the federal judge’s decision, and it’s a doozy. Here’s how she framed the question: 🧵
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In the last week, Ukraine has “sanctioned” roughly 100 shadow fleet ships carrying Russian oil. Shadow ships are burning; Russians are seeing gas lines and fistfights for fuel. Ukraine is winning.
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These Ukrainians are remarkable; they make me proud to be a human being — which is precious right now looking at our leadership.
link:https://www.wsj.com/world/ukraines-most-potent-weapon-is-the-soldiers-who-refuse-to-quit-bdd145fe
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I am stunned and saddened to hear the news this morning. Lindsey was a giant in the Senate. No one loved being a Senator more, or was more energetic. The Senate will be a lesser place without him. I’ve lost a dearly cherished friend.
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This fossil fuel stoogery won’t age well. The industry is betting its credibility on a proposition its own scientists thirty years ago told it was WRONG. There will be a reckoning. Shareholders should beware.
link:https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2026/07/07/can-you-help-us-us-oil-execs-turn-to-trump-to-topple-europes-climate-rules-00987782
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Trump screws up ANOTHER reflecting pool? More shoddy work spotted at the Kennedy Center.
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Climate change is front and center in the affordability crisis — and Democrats ought to talk about it.
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Why we need permitting reform, and why we need to stop Trump’s corrupt blockade of American solar and wind (hint: he does it to force U.S. grids to buy expensive fossil power from his crooked donors, even though your costs go up).
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Let’s not forget the permits blockade, which delayed low-cost clean energy projects, forcing electric grids to revert to expensive fossil units. Costs went up for consumers, but those extra billions all went to Trump’s fossil fuel donors.
link:https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-where-energy-bills-could-rise-most-after-trump-policy-changes-12167762
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Former NOAA chief scientist: “The stresses that we see today are only going to get worse because heat waves like this ten years from now will be over 40C.” Or you can believe Big Oil.
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McKibben goes with the zettajoules!! (For scale, entire human energy consumption = 1/2 a zettajoule.) Time to wake up.
link:https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/an-inconvenient-moment-for-an-extreme-global-heat-wave
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Hurray for the humanitarian decision to license Patriot missile technology to Ukraine, to help protect their civilians from murderous Russian bombardment. We may learn from seeing U.S. and Ukrainian Patriot construction side by side.
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:-) bsky.app/profile/real...
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Hot but joyful Bristol Parade gets a nod from D.C.! Bravo, Bristol!!
link:https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5954506-july-fourth-somerset-ky-bristol-ri/
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Sweet story! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyi1...
link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyi1aikvY5Q
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Notwithstanding fossil fuel propaganda, huge increase in awareness of climate health dangers.
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You're likely worth billions, or planning to be. Don't think we won't remember that you don't want to clean up your own mess. You can afford it. You just don't want to. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
link:https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/gas-plants-us-data-centers-be-major-source-climate-change-linked-emissions-2026-07-01/
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@jimacosta.bsky.social looks at where it all began – Rhode Island! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRRb...
link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRRbwQjbOnk
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So don’t look at the explanations, a fog of reverse-engineered nonsense to get to a desired result. To understand this Court, you need to ignore the fog and look at the patterns of outcomes — not what they say, what they do. www.vox.com/politics/494...
link:https://www.vox.com/politics/494282/supreme-court-illegible
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Nice to see people catching on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
link:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/birthright-citizenship-dissents/687799/
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Nature can really pound you when you ignore her rules. Like how climate upheaval works. www.nbcnews.com/video/thousa...
link:https://www.nbcnews.com/video/thousands-evacuated-from-national-mall-due-to-weather-266181189957
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Trump destroyed the teams at DOJ dedicated to going after kleptocrats and oligarchs like Putin, right off the bat. It was the first of many favors. Trump/Russia is no hoax. www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...
link:https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/putin-100m-yacht-flees-arctic-161731229.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAG_hDgaxUfaPhAs6cpBxwf69gN5-d0u-M0kxKlcnDwrzxG8yOr3N_OzNpZILOelwKvXXGYHZpi1Nmzf6bT33R7A3tfs6TysVSv4ukLDzav1F85K-MfXNIIQPd-c-0QrlKq6xzcJnGwKp-O1FBmPKEQPJ2hdwm3_JY0y04naZYtIY
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And yet he’s pals with Putin. Go figure. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
link:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-extols-america-rails-communism-us-250th-celebration-2026-07-04/
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Nice to see the work under way at Mt. Hope Bridge.
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Always a joy marching in the nation’s oldest continuous Fourth of July parade in beautiful Bristol. Happy 250th birthday, America!
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Sometimes you win when you don’t. Little Cape Verde’s performance against Messi and the Argentinian team was one for the ages. Bravo!!
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Nothing to see here, folks. Keep believing fossil fuel.
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New ocean temperature record set as fossil fuel keeps dumping zettajoules (look it up — big-ass number!) of excess heat into the ocean every year. “Nothing to see here,” say the polluters. They lie. marine.copernicus.eu/press/press-...
link:https://marine.copernicus.eu/press/press-releases/copernicus-marine-and-copernicus-climate-change-daily-global-sea-surface
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Grateful for the generosity of my (part-time) constituent, Taylor Swift. Wishing her and Travis a joyous wedding celebration — even if it’s not here in Rhody!
link:https://turnto10.com/news/local/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-donate-1-million-rhode-island-community-food-bank-july-2-2026
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A little reminder about Republican Billionaires’ Bill: “extend[ed] roughly $4.5T in tax cuts disproportionately benefiting corporations and the wealthy over 10 years” while “addi[ing] a projected $4.7T to the national debt over the next decade.” Had enough? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
link:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-big-beautiful-bill-act-tax-medicaid-snap-one-year-rcna351211
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Feeling the Heat? Europe’s heat wave “was so intense that in a stable preindustrial environment … it would have been the kind of freak event the region could expect about once every 26,000 years.” Fossil fuel caused it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/opinion/heat-wave-europe-america.html
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Leaving Trump as Putin’s hole card, with explanation required of why this is the one relationship in which Trump is the submissive. What is the kompromat, or what is the bribe? Trump/Russia is no “hoax.”
link:https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-russian-reckoning-5c3abd6f
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Corrupt lounge lizard Trump flying on his gilded Qatari jet to honor trust-busting outdoorsman Teddy Roosevelt pins the irony meter to the peg.
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The geniuses at ICE just arrested a Catholic nun, who practices as a nurse, as she was walking to church. Our Republican colleagues think they need even more money. Had enough?
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/07/01/ices-arrest-nun-heading-church-fuels-bipartisan-backlash-south-texas/
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Todd Blanche has betrayed DOJ’s ethical standards.
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For most of our American history, Congress set up agencies and commissions to deal with complex and specialized questions. We made them expert, independent and often bipartisan. Every single one of the fifty states has done the same at some point. It worked. 🧵
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Joined @reed.senate.gov to see progress on Westerly’s Tower Street Community Center today! We secured federal funding to build a new community hub that we hope Westerly residents will enjoy for a long time to come.
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Amazing that the Trumpiest extreme of the extremist wing went with Trump even on something clear as this. It should have been 9-0, but then so should the presidential immunity decision, and it was 6-3 for the extremists’ anti-constitutional invention.
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Another anti-democracy decision by the extremist wing of the Court, privileging even more the power of big money, just as the big-money interests that assembled this Court wish; just as the billionaire-funded flotilla of amici instructed.
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/30/campaign-spending-supreme-court-ruling-00980450
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Civilizations fail when resources fail. For them, in a simpler world, it was sub-Saharan aquifers. For us, in a complex world, it’s climate stability. Climate stability is an essential resource for human well-being.
link:https://www.wildmanlife.com/the-forgotten-castles-of-the-garamantes/
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Once again, SCOTUS makes the pro-corruption decision. Regulatory decisions that have for decades been trustworthy are now amenable to political fix by a president’s henchmen, in this dark-money political world.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/29/supreme-court-expands-trumps-power-over-federal-bureaucracy/
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Republican senators who vote to confirm Blanche are deluding themselves if they believe he will do anything but accelerate the weaponization of the justice system.
link:https://www.contrariannews.org/p/todd-blanche-should-not-be-confirmed