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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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Find this and more from my @epw.senate.gov investigation:
link:https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/8/5/85852c84-59f4-48b1-a9a6-13a091ec75aa/81F3FAD8622463D530F2A1B58848D11006736823EA15737224A29D0ACEBCE1AB.7.9.26-letter-to-kennedy-center-re-facilities.pdf
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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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(P.S. PolluterPage won’t touch that while Trump is doing whatever their corrupt fossil-fuel cronies want.)
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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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Creepy billionaires running the country from behind a captured Court is no way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our great Republic. That is not what the Founders intended then, and it doesn’t serve We the People today.
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We built defenses against this corruption, over decades. With those defenses pulled down by the extremists of this billionaire-built Court, it’s time for a jolt of democracy. It’s time to wake up. It’s time for major court reform.
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This is their payday. A quick trip to the Oval Office, a big check to a superPAC, and presto! Everyone running the agency fired or brought to heel; agencies delivering results the corrupt donors want; a license for big money corruption.
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They even funded academic hothouses (“think tanks”) to propagate self-serving legal doctrines for their Court like “major questions” and “unitary executive.” It’s nonsense, but it aligns perfectly with the goals of billionaire cheaters and polluters.
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They even built a false narrative of an “administrative state” made up of “unaccountable bureaucrats” (heard that before?). In fact, agencies are highly accountable to Congress (CRA, e.g.), courts (APA, e.g.) and the president (appointees, e.g.).
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Nobody wins except big polluters and economic cheaters who fear sensible and honest regulation, and prefer corrupt influence. That’s very, very few people, but they’re very, very rich, and they give very, very big money to Republicans.
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Six extremists on the billionaire-built Supreme Court just upended that: ninety years of its own precedent, and over 100 years of practice, reliance and success. They think they know better, than Congress, the people, their own predecessors, and all fifty states.
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Expertise helped them resist being tricked by industry. Independence (“quasi,” anyway) helped them resist corrupt influence. Bipartisanship steadied the ship. Yup, it worked. America became a global leader in regulated areas (securities and pharmaceuticals, e.g.).
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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
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Supreme Court decides Congress has no power to put restrictions on positions Congress creates (once again reversing precedent). Building an imperial presidency and stripping power from the people’s representatives is a hell of a way to celebrate the 250th. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
link:https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-blocks-trumps-fed-firing-but-allows-removals-at-other-agencies-350c8cf4
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www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
link:https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ClimateWarningsNOV25.pdf