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Mucho hogwash. Offshore wind demonstrably less expensive than fossil; ask the grid. Trump pays back fossil donors by blocking cheaper competition. www.csmonitor.com/Environment/...
link:https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2026/0328/total-energies-trump-wind-farm
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But if you ask Republicans, the real crime was Jack Smith investigating any of this.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/25/trump-classified-map-private-plane/
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Since they've corrupted our executive branch under Trump, it becomes more important than ever to claw back for consumers their crooked excess profits.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/business/energy-environment/natural-gas-prices-lng-shell-exxon-war-iran.html
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Is this that he just lies, or is it mental fatigue?
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Do we need to consider whether the “absurdly incoherent” statements of the President reflect some form of mental incapacity? He seems to have stopped making sense.
link:https://www.politico.eu/article/donlad-trump-strait-of-hormuz-allies-befuddled/
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Lyin’ Lee Zeldin deceived Congress, the courts, and the American people. I’m calling on him to go.
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If the Republican-controlled House screws this up, there’ll be no way for the press to pretend Republicans have not always owned this shutdown.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/27/dhs-funding-house-tsa/
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Here we go again. If this were Biden, they’d be talking about age and mental fatigue and whether the President can keep track. Trump, nearly 80, gets a pass.
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/26/i-have-no-idea-trump-allies-iran-00847304
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From a legal perspective, the FBI’s raid of a Fulton County election office doesn’t pass the smell test. From an intelligence standpoint, it becomes even more suspicious. @markwarner.bsky.social and I unpack the red flags raised by this search in the latest episode of Making the Case. 🔗⬇️
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No wonder this foul industry fights and lies and corrupts to protect its rotten free-to-pollute business model.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/us-climate-damage-research
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If this were Biden, there’d be a paragraph in there on his age and mental capacity; Trump always gets a pass, even in stories suggesting mental fatigue.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/us/politics/trump-iran-talks.html
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Sue and settle/pay to play/public $$ to MAGAloons. Reeks. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-25/doj-agrees-to-pay-ex-trump-adviser-michael-flynn-in-settlement
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Joe Biden won the election in 2020. If a future judge can’t admit that, what’s left?
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Home insurance rates are rising — and climate is the culprit.
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No surprise. MAGA DOJ feeds info to Republicans to prop up false narratives; won’t answer basic questions from Democrats.
link:https://www.courthousenews.com/doj-may-have-disclosed-secret-grand-jury-material-to-congress-violated-judicial-gag-order-in-trump-classified-documents-case/
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The “SAVE” Act is designed to make voting a hassle.
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This clarifies that (a) Democrats offered to open up other DHS components (like TSA), and (b) Republicans did not agree and Trump wouldn’t.
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What we have been offering ALL ALONG is to fund DHS components like TSA, FEMA and Coast Guard — no conditions, just yes — and finally Republicans have moved in that direction.
link:https://wapo.st/4rNogFr
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This is Trump’s payback to his corrupt fossil fuel donors. Every clean inexpensive energy source he takes off the grid moves the grid back to marginal polluting fossil plants that would otherwise be off line. Billions goes from ratepayers to big donors. It’s a scheme. www.npr.org/2026/03/24/n...
link:https://www.npr.org/2026/03/24/nx-s1-5684158/trump-takes-aim-at-windmills-despite-increasing-energy-costs
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The corrupt billionaires controlling the Republican Party need the SAVE Act.
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More evidence of the Trump/Russia/Epstein triangle.
quote:at://did:plc:qqixzm5pwprzdnkbh2hglpax/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqn74o3v22k
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Hard to find a single thing Trump does that doesn’t help Vladimir Putin and the fossil fuel industry. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/03/23/iran-war-us-lng-exports-taiwan-trump-asia-natural-gas"
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One way to help would be to get assurances that DOJ and the marshals sworn to protect our federal judges will investigate behind the mere utterer of the threat whenever there is evidence of orchestration, coordination or conspiracy – something they have refused to say despite many requests.
link:https://www.law360.com/publicpolicy/articles/2452769?nl_pk=8a19be73-f775-450b-b253-1226979ad5fa&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=publicpolicy&utm_content=2026-03-20&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=5
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Does this settle the question of which party is holding TSA funding hostage to get other stuff? Remember Democrats’ offer on TSA funding: “Yes. No conditions.” Could it be any clearer?
link:https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116275668825285445
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Epstein claimed to have given insight on Trump to the Russians.
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Sunday night update from the Senate:
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“Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate.” Amazing the things Trumpsters have to say trying to stay aligned with Trump’s “wildly vacillating pronouncements about the war.” @politico.com
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Even with Trump helping Putin, Ukraine keeps winning. Over 3200 Russian casualties in just two days; 2200 likely fatalities.
link:https://open.substack.com/pub/bobhomans/p/3230-russian-casualties-in-the-last?r=5k2b5q&utm_medium=ios
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The so-called SAVE America Act is about as un-American as it gets.
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A good piece by @senangusking.bsky.social.
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At $100/barrel that means EVs saved around $84 billion last year.
quote:at://did:plc:uewxgchsjy4kmtu7dcxa77us/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhck5pqy7n2p
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Republicans stand by this foul man.
quote:at://did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhlkjhpqbs2k
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Democrats have offered to pay the salaries — fully fund, no conditions — for TSA. It’s Republicans who keep blocking that.
quote:at://did:plc:jbvnehrrdqoulco4rf5gxg5r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhlej3g6cu2r
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Democrats are willing to fund FEMA, no conditions attached, even with wackadoodles like this in supposedly grownup jobs. But Republicans want the hostage, and won’t accept “Yes, with no conditions” as our answer. It’s 100% on them.
link:https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/politics/fema-official-gregg-phillips-violent-rhetoric-teleported-kfile
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Shows how the oil industry runs the world, and the Trump administration for sure. Total stooges.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/20/iran-oil-sanctions-trump/
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Remember the Democrats’ position on funding TSA: Yes. No conditions. Just yes. Hard for a minority party to offer more. Republicans won’t take yes for an answer because they want the hostage.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2026/03/20/tsa-security-dhs-airports-lines/
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Republicans drive up home insurance costs by pretending climate change isn’t real — a service to their fossil fuel funders; a huge disservice to their constituents.
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-18/us-home-insurance-prices-set-to-keep-rising-with-severe-weather
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Americans are getting squeezed at the gas pump as Trump’s War in Iran sends gas prices soaring and money flowing to his Big Oil donors. This week, @khanna.house.gov and I reintroduced a bill to curb this profiteering and provide relief to consumers.
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The MAGA system for intimidating judges.
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Her explanation was no explanation. Other than involving Trump in the mess.
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“Blocking permits for new clean energy keeps cheap supply off the system,” which forces grid to high-cost fossil units, revenue to Trump donors. Scam.
link:https://fortune.com/2026/03/17/electricity-prices-rising-how-to-fix-utility-regulation/
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Methane polluters should be held to account. Instead, Republicans help them pollute. Fossil fuel money corrupts America.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/17/revealed-world-worst-methane-leaks-global-heating
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Republicans don’t want to fund TSA.
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Fossil fuel flunkies go into panic mode over obvious fact that their energy is dangerous, polluting, and whacks consumers with huge price hikes.
link:https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4490218/strait-of-hormuz-choke-point-rotten-fruits-green-policies/
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Polluters, and freeloaders too — to the tune of a trillion dollars. How much political corruption protects that grift?
link:https://www.iea.org/topics/fossil-fuel-subsidies
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Here comes the Great Climate Insurance Collapse.
link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-15/california-insurance-crisis-hits-even-homes-facing-lower-wildfire-risk
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Whiz kid.
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The Trump administration not appealing the decision throwing out its “stop work” order is a good sign for permitting reform progress, as wild swings in oil prices remind us that inexpensive, homemade electrons that do not depend on foreign cartel pricing are a national security win.
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Getting rid of dark money would be one good start. Paying their damned taxes would be another. We can do both. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/15/billionaire-curb-power-movement?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1