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On the Billionaire Boys Trip to China, what chance any of them think about reducing your cost of living, versus wheeler-dealing for themselves? We know where Trump is: he “doesn’t think about Americans’ financial situation,” busy with billion-dollar ballroom and grifting.
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And we’re fifteen years too late to the dark money corruption fight, and twenty-five years too late to the Court capture fight, and thirty-five years too late to the climate denial fraud fight. But other than that, we’re doing great.
link:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/virginia-supreme-court-lawsuit/
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Time to pass my Big Oil Windfall Profits bill to claw back runaway fossil fuel profits and return them to American families.
link:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cpi-inflation-iran-war-gas-prices-energy/
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On this not-fighting-about-climate-change stuff we’ve been seeing, here’s some relevant new polling. 🧵
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Senator Johnson objected.
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I’m on the Senate Floor preparing to ask my colleagues if we can all agree on this one, simple truth: our oceans are warming.
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Americans are concerned about costs and corruption. Polluters are on the wrong side of both. I’m headed to the Senate floor to deliver my 307th Time to Wake Up speech. www.youtube.com/live/mfh-tL0...
link:https://www.youtube.com/live/mfh-tL0g46Q?si=7G_jzzsdQefBdoOR
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Trump: “I don't think about Americans’ financial situation.” Well, that much is certainly clear.
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IMO, another big fat Trumpian favor for the fossil fuel industry. Maybe paired with our excess profits clawback bill this makes sense, but not while they’re busy gorging themselves at the public’s expense.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/11/trump-suspend-gas-tax-iran/
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Let’s remember: (1) the fossil fuel industry is desperate to pollute for free; if they can’t pollute for free, their business model collapses. 🧵
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Shared this thread with a friend in the investment space (no greenie!), and here’s what he had to say: “In ten years, no one will buy a house without thinking about climate change-induced risks and costs … It is a future that is rapidly coming into focus.” Exactly.
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They’re used to false facts. How about Citizens United’s “no need to worry about corruption, all the political money we just released is going to be transparent: you’ll know who the donors are”?
link:https://newrepublic.com/post/210174/samuel-alito-bad-data-ruling-voting-rights-act
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Trump’s bogus FEMA in action: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
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Happy Mother’s Day! 💐
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Trump is granting polluters’ wishlists to poison our air with cancer-causing chemicals, no questions asked. The No Passes for Polluters Act would stop this corruption. www.propublica.org/article/clea...
link:https://www.propublica.org/article/clean-air-act-exemptions-trump-emails
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Equal parts gangster and gong show, playing carelessly with people’s lives. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/05/09/doj-sees-fallout-after-push-prosecute-former-fbi-director-james-comey/
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Yet Dems shy away from the issue, despite voting 100% to get rid of dark money when given the chance. (Republicans 100% defend dark money.) www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/09/poll-americans-say-too-much-money-in-politics-00912455
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Should be us. This is the price of the corrupt Trump administration decision to cede this entire industry to the Chinese, just for added gasoline sales for his big fossil fuel donors. Corruption has a cost. American industries will pay.
link:https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/giant-battery-company-900-miles-range/
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Top 10 reasons why Democrats need to talk about climate change now: 🧵
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link:https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/picture/2026/may/07/where-microplastics-are-going-on-holiday-this-year-the-stephen-collins-cartoon
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It’s simpler: by stalling clean energy, he forces the grid up the “generation stack” to expensive fossil fuel plants, which raises costs; the effect is to send billions of ratepayer dollars to his big fossil fuel donors. A) Corruption, and B) You paid for it.
link:https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/energy-crisis-trump-vendetta-wind-energy-1235539365/
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Trump is using taxpayer dollars to bribe huge corporations to abandon wind farms that would lower consumer prices by displacing expensive polluting fossil units — a political pay-off to his big fossil fuel donors. youtu.be/O73_qd8YQus?...
link:https://youtu.be/O73_qd8YQus?si=KIXUJO_hq8hwhDu9
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Passive voice? Climate change has “become a partisan issue”? Say it straight: fossil fuel industry’s corruption has made it a partisan issue; Republicans are hip-deep in fossil fuel money and lies.
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-05/ecb-s-lagarde-urges-europe-to-reduce-energy-import-dependency
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Senate Republicans are wearing out the knees of their pants in their efforts to humor The Mad Trump on things voters despise. How about freeing up clean energy so electric rates come down? Nope, ballroom. And of course The Mad Trump says the quiet part out loud.
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The rot runs deep in the Supreme Court.
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Joined @rikidscount.bsky.social's annual breakfast to reflect on the challenges facing kids and families across the Ocean State. Thanks for all you do to help kids grow up healthy and ready to succeed.
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Today is Rhode Island’s Independence Day, first of the colonies — first also with destruction of HMS Gaspee!
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Ukraine deserves our support.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/04/28/ukraine-teaches-european-allies-lesson-russia-fight-kyiv-forum/?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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This stuff is so benign that tons of it is for sale on Amazon. Anyone arresting Bezos?
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Even the WSJ sees the home insurance meltdown. It’s a big expense to start with, so these big increases can be devastating. 🧵
link:https://www.wsj.com/finance/natural-disasters-are-rewriting-home-insurance-costs-see-how-it-impacts-you-710eab3b
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76 days of Republicans’ disarray and confusion led to accepting the offer Senate Democrats made on Day 1. First, after much delay, Republican Senators agreed unanimously; then the House Republicans, after more delay, ultimately also agreed. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/02/six-months-to-catch-up-what-the-shutdown-cost-dhs-00903118
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Big Oil’s scheme to get the courts to shield the industry’s ability to pollute for free and greenlight the destruction of our planet continues.
link:https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-science-oil-gas-fossil-fuel-judges-jim-jordan
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Clean energy is winning. Trump’s fossil fuel corruption just (a) raises energy costs for America and (b) hobbles U.S. competitiveness. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
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NOW the world notices??
link:https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/voting-rights-act-callais-louisianna-partisan-gerrymandering/
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“Trump’s video-game war “excursion” has turned a dying clerical regime into a tight-knit military regime that has now tasted the enormous power of controlling the Strait of Hormuz.” (Credit Sidney Blumenthal)
link:https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/how-war-saved-iranian-regime
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Climate risk to insurance collapse to mortgage meltdown to property values crash. How often have I warned? And so many others?
link:https://www.dailymail.com/yourmoney/article-15768045/zillow-listings-florida-real-estate-price-cuts-crisis-begins.html
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Big Oil is using Trump's war to drive up prices and rake in record profits. In just the first three months of 2026, BP made $3,200,000,000. That’s over $266 million per week. $34 million per day. $402 per *second.* My Windfall Profits Bill would return those profits to you.
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Trump wanted Comey charged and Blanche is desperate to stay on the job.
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Amazing graphic of US drought crisis, reaching beyond “extreme” into “exceptional.” New levels of extreme weather from fossil fuel pollution.
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This month, we stand with Armenians around the world in recognizing the Armenian Genocide. We remember the over 1.5 million Armenians murdered by the Ottoman Empire and reaffirm our commitment to Armenians whose culture and sovereignty remain under threat.
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U.S. auto companies compete in world markets, unless we want to be like the Russian Lada, only sold domestically because it sucks.
link:https://www.carwow.co.uk/news/10630/catl-electric-car-batteries-930-miles-range-four-minute-charging
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Trump is paying off big corporations, with taxpayer money, to stop inexpensive clean energy, forcing the grid to buy more expensive polluting energy from Trump’s corrupt fossil fuel donors. It’s a racket, raising costs on purpose, to enrich political donors.
link:https://www.eenews.net/articles/interior-announces-end-of-two-more-offshore-wind-leases-2/
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I want to see the Judiciary Committee strong. But it’s setting dangerous precedents.
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Everyone needs to think through what this could mean. OPEC props up an international oil price that makes U.S. oil production profitable. As the world economy approaches “peak oil,” the logic to defect becomes inexorable: selling what you can while you still can, at some point makes economic sense.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/29/the-guardian-view-on-the-uae-quitting-opec-whatever-importers-pay-the-price-of-fossil-fuels-is-too-high
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Senator Ron Johnson objected.
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I’m headed to the Senate Floor to ask my colleagues if we can all agree on this one, simple truth: sea levels are rising.
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“Project,” quadruple “dissent,” and no “respectfully” are a strong signal of being truly fed up. Deservedly.
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