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Remember what we’ve found out about training shortcuts and recruiting with white supremacist signals.
link:https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2026-06-10-Letter-to-DHS-Recruitment.pdf
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Remember idiotic performance with RI judge and high school intern that thankfully involved only threats, not gunfire.
link:https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/ri-judge-intervenes-after-ice-mistakenly-detains-superior-court-intern/
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Remember what Minneapolis’s police chief said about ICE shootings there. news.grabien.com/story/minnea...
link:https://news.grabien.com/story/minneapolis-police-chief-ice-agents-looks-very-untrained-absolutely-no
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This is heartbreaking — and so unprofessional.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/10/09/mullin-says-ice-didnt-know-5-year-old-boy-was-car-when-officer-fired/
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All money from your pocket into fossil fuel’s. Trump’s big corrupt donors are looting the country, and you.
quote:at://did:plc:el26bci423wwjjnhoohutwem/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxc7epfdrk2i
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Fossil fuel industry dominant products are lies, hydrocarbons and pollution.
link:https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07102026/exxonmobil-climate-deception-new-evidence/
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Once again, Trump and Putin take the side of international corruption. Trump/Russia.
link:https://apnews.com/article/trump-corruption-council-of-europe-31f7f0e4bba7bf26dfc99cd2c3a20d16
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With all the Republican-condoned methane leakage along the way, on top of the cost of transporting, liquefying, shipping, re-gassing, and more transport, yes, it starts to look more polluting than local coal. Polluters don’t care.
link:https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2026/10/01/worse-than-coal-debate-intensifies-over-carbon-impact-of-us-gas-imported-to-europe_6758153_114.html
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Turns out it was two bedrooms. My bad!
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Ah, so Trump’s DHS removed *one of two bedrooms* on the luxury private jet and kept the bar, marble bathrooms, and manta ray skin table — for deportations. Okay. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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6. Last, but not least, FAFO for clean energy! If the administration is caught denying permits systematically to clean energy sources, the roof falls in on them, with massive damages payments they would do well to avoid :-).
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5. “Virtual power plants”? Yup, if you can aggregate lots of rooftop solar, for instance, you can bid that resource into your electric grid. Let a thousand flowers bloom.
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4. First big bite at REAL data center accountability: data centers must pay for any network upgrades needed to serve their big demand, so ratepayers don’t bear the cost burden of added infrastructure.
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3. At long last, a state block grant program to contribute revenue to coastal and ocean protection is in place. Next, let’s get it funded with a GOMESA-for-the-good-guys revenue stream. Lots of groups will benefit.
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2. I hate “inter-agency process” where executive branch laziness, incompetence, and intramural quarrels hide. We put discipline and transparency into that mess, so agencies can’t hide their screwing around without accountability.
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1. Developers have to file notice of stakeholder engagement up front, which will reduce dumb project starts like proposing turbines in a major harbor’s shipping lane. You’ll get busted fast if you haven’t done your stakeholder work, up front.
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There are a bunch of specific things I like about our permitting bill, beyond the big important stuff — that it will lower electric costs and emissions, and lift wind, solar and battery power (BIG lift for battery), and add LOTS of good jobs.🧵
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This reflects the larger problem of Trump’s Costume Party Cabinet, unqualified oddballs and suck-ups who get to wear the costume of high office but can’t do the jobs, instead dress up and chant “WE ARE DOING GREAT!” Heckuva job, one might say.
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In addition to infesting government with this creepy crew of flakes and grifters, real national security work is not getting done as they chase imaginary goblins. That’s the real cost of An Audience of One, and losers/grifters who take advantage.
link:https://www.reuters.com/investigations/how-trumps-obsession-with-rigged-voting-machines-spread-across-us-government-2026-10-02/
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Funny how their “originalism” dissipates when there’s a Republican/billionaire imperative at stake. I don’t think “originally” corporations were people, or presidents had immunity, or agencies couldn’t make “major” rules, or Congress couldn’t set terms of office. What a joke.
link:https://www.wsj.com/opinion/justice-samuel-alito-even-originalists-make-mistakes-02cedb8c
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Trump’s buddy. “Vladimir Putin instructed his generals to abandon the rules of war … in intensified Russian aerial strikes on Kyiv's civilian infrastructure, including schools, hospitals and key bridges.”
link:https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/ukraine-russia-war-putin-kyiv-strikes-b3060374.html
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Trump trashes U.S. auto competitiveness as yet another service to his corrupt fossil fuel donors.
link:https://gizmodo.com/ford-ceo-says-europe-is-lost-to-chinese-electric-vehicles-2000820582
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Trumpster motto: “no conflict, no interest.”
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/us/politics/kushner-witkoff-russia-oil-deal.html
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Ooof.
link:https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6124359-schmitt-perjury-claim-debunked/
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First the wedding, now the ballroom — “Trump/Russia” gets smellier and smellier.
link:https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a73967876/white-house-ballroom-trump-russia/
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Rogues gallery of corporate “super-emitter” scoundrels.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/14/us-companies-methane-pollution-rankings
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BAAJA is our best bet to lower people’s electricity costs and make sure data centers pay their fair share AND more.
link:https://heatmap.news/daily/data-center-permitting-deal
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The “reef effect” of offshore wind in action.
link:https://blog.nwf.org/2026/08/gone-fishing-at-the-offshore-wind-turbines/
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Gross. How much creepy behavior does Patel have to get caught in before he gets booted?
link:https://newrepublic.com/post/215905/kash-patel-alina-habbaa-wedding-guests-double-agent
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steveamped.substack.com/p/straight-t...
link:https://steveamped.substack.com/p/straight-talk-with-senator-whitehouse?utm_source=substack&publication_id=10177416&post_id=217841026&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=5k2b5q&triedRedirect=true
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Joined Steve McBee to discuss the climate fight and the future of the clean energy industry. Clean energy is generally the most affordable option these days, and Democrats need to spread the word.
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The third method of governance if legislation and regulation fail is litigation. That’s the last target for the captured Court to give fossil fuel free-to-pollute immunity against governance. Which is why Suncor is so important to them.
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Two, they killed off climate regulation by killing the Clean Power Plan (twice, for good measure) and erecting their “major questions doctrine” barrier to any future climate regulation efforts.
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One, they killed off climate legislation via the Citizens United decision dropping infinite fossil fuel dark money into our politics. Bipartisanship on climate died the day of that decision, as dark money flowed.
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More important than the “structure of the Constitution” here is the structure of the Court — an institution captured years ago by fossil fuel billionaires. The fossil fuel billionaires are putting it to profitable use.
link:https://www.vox.com/politics/504186/supreme-court-suncor-exxon-boulder-climate-change-constitution
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Another fossil fuel con job. Any savings on the front end get eaten up and spat out by excess costs of fuel, which go to — oh, right — Trump’s big corrupt fossil fuel donors. Fuel economy standards have saved drivers hundreds of billions of dollars. www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2026/09/28/trump-says-new-fuel-economy-rules-will-cut-car-prices-analysts-are-doubtful/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=wp_breaking_news_alert"
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In which case, what are you doing with a criminal search warrant? Was the whole thing a pretext to seize records they’d failed to get?
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Unless you never expected there to be a criminal case with a defendant to ask those witnesses awkward questions.
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Think, think, think. Why would you want to make Bailey a witness to the search? Or Gabbard? Terrible procedure; really weird. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/09/28/andrew-bailey-no-2-fbi-resigns-latest-shake-up-bureau/
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When the massive Pentagon and its immense Defense Industrial Base are incapable of predicting this (even with Ukraine’s Patriot demand signal), something is very badly wrong. This is a system failure. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
link:https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/defense-firms-are-rushing-to-boost-missile-output-its-coming-too-late-ea6dd7ea"
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Looks like closing for physical work was to cover the fact that they drove finances into the ground with reckless re-naming adventure. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/09/27/trump-now-says-kennedy-center-could-be-deadly-months-ago-it-was-great/
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rhowardstone.substack.com/p/conservati...
link:https://rhowardstone.substack.com/p/conservative-journalist-shared-unredacted
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Meanwhile it appears DOJ some time ago leaked the 37 pages to a Trump-friendly reporter. I wonder if they disclosed that to the judge. “So secret we can’t show you but we leaked them” is not a good look. meidasnews.com/news/trump-d...
link:https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-doj-claims-it-handed-judge-epstein-fbi-notes-on-disturbing-trump-allegations
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Sunset stripes before the storm.
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As a matter of law, executors have a fiduciary duty to not waste estate funds, so they must have found her credible enough to pay.
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Remember the 37 pages? The woman interviewed by the FBI about Trump allegedly assaulting her as a 15-year-old received a settlement from these people. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
link:https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/federal-prosecutors-open-probe-into-jeffrey-epsteins-executors-cfef362b
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Every American should have the choice to buy in to Medicare as a low-cost “public option.” www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
link:https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/americans-navigate-wild-west-health-insurance-options-after-dropping-obamacare-2026-09-25/
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Our Graham/Blumenthal Russia sanctions bill has provisions on the “shadow fleet” problem. It’s good that the Europeans are cracking down on this illicit menace; we need to step up too. kyivindependent.com/europes-crac...
link:https://kyivindependent.com/europes-crackdown-halves-shadow-fleet-ships-sailing-under-false-flags-report-says/"
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Trump palling around with the world’s biggest Communist and billionaire tech bros behind the data center plague has to be awkward for “anti-communist” Republicans trying to get well on their data center problem.
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Transit costs get charged to consumers (more inflation) and low water (yup, climate change) is part of what’s backing up the Canal. www.wsj.com/business/log...
link:https://www.wsj.com/business/logistics/how-the-panama-canal-became-a-50-mile-waterway-with-a-5-million-ticket-price-271095f4"