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When Moody’s is posting trillion-dollar flood loss warnings, might it be time to start paying attention? Insurance markets are already staggering. Mortgage and real estate markets follow. The warnings are real and many.
link:https://www.moodys.com/web/en/us/insights/physical-transition-risk/us-flood-risk-a-country-level-analysis.html
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You can’t claim to “appreciate things” as you sacrifice them.
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Trump is having tourists arrested over imaginary vandalism.
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Another unprepared and unqualified Trump nominee.
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If he was out to deliberately poke a stick in Leader Thune’s eye, he could hardly have done better. Add the Pulte/702 fiasco. Add the Blanche vote, after his Trump/Epstein Files disaster and his slush fund mess. Add Reflecting Poll and JFK disasters. It’s piling up.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/24/trump-abruptly-cancels-signing-bipartisan-bill-affordable-housing/
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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: climate change poses a threat to home values and the mortgage market.
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link:https://aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/exxon-ceo-lee-raymond-is-dead-his
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The orange Dear Leader can’t abide that he blew it (blue it?) at the Reflecting Pool, so he invented a fake “vandalism” narrative, and now Park Police are having to arrest harmless tourists to puff up the phony narrative, Soviet-style.
link:https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/reflecting-pool-iran-impotence-trump/
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The next generation has cause for complaint.
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That didn’t last long. Iran first won the negotiations and then broke the deal. This “no respect” administration is pathetic.
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Still laughing at the celebrity roster at Obama Presidential Library, as Trump gets Kid Rock. Cracks me up.
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Another telling “slush fund” pleading by MAGA DOJ: they refuse to commit in court to Blanche’s promise not to pursue it. Funny how often in Trumpland stuff they say vanishes once they’re under oath. Lying is fine and dandy until then. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
link:https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.596617/gov.uscourts.vaed.596617.93.0.pdf
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Why not answer? A “fraud on the court” allegation is particularly severe, even for a MAGA DOJ regularly called out for pretextual legal arguments, misleading factual statements, professional misconduct and even suggestions of contempt. Its silence is deafening.
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Trump’s personal lawyers (who offered a terse answer) are in no position to opine on DOJ internal policies, have no access to internal client defense memos from the IRS, setting aside the takes-two-to-tango nature of “collusion.” DOJ was not ordered to answer, but spurned a plain invitation.
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Add the telling failure of this MAGA DOJ to reply to a first-ever “fraud on the court” allegation. The court expressed interest in DOJ’s IRS defense memo and in possible violation of DOJ policies and in “collusion” (which takes two), all implicating DOJ. Yet no response.
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It is worth reading, particularly as it lays out methods and remedies available to the court.
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Late yesterday, the court posted the attached reply of the challenger judges on Trump and MAGA DOJ committing “fraud on the court” in their rotten slush fund/tax amnesty “settlement.” 🧵 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
link:https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172.94.0.pdf
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Blanche vote will test the poodles. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/06/19/trump-iran-deal-reveals-flailing-terminal-presidency/
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This is not okay. I don’t think this has happened in the history of our U.S. Attorney’s Office. www.wpri.com/target-12/ju...
link:https://www.wpri.com/target-12/judge-asst-u-s-attorney-violated-duty-of-candor-in-ice-detainee-release-case/
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Marking Juneteenth with the opening of the Newport Historical Society’s Edward W. Kane & Martha J. Wallace Center for Black History. The new Center puts a spotlight on an important, under-told part of Newport’s history.
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It’s simpler: blocking low-cost clean energy diverts electric grids to more expensive fossil plants, raising costs but driving billions of dollars from consumers’ pockets to Trump’s big corrupt fossil fuel donors. www.sanluisobispo.com/opinion/edit...
link:https://www.sanluisobispo.com/opinion/editorials/article316176245.html
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As his presidency fails, Trump would rather pull Republicans down with him than fail alone. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/18/trumps-spat-with-senate-republicans-once-again-disrupts-their-agenda/
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Not just beer, but local Narragansett Lager. Providence is loving the kilt invasion!
link:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BtGcE1YLBsg
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Today’s simple truth: climate change is driving up homeowners’ insurance costs. We should all be able to agree on that.
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Now where do I know that signature from? 🤔
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Senator Lummis 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: climate change is driving up homeowners’ insurance costs.
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This is just part of Trump’s crooked scheme.
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The corruption runs deep when the polluters run the government.
link:https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-methane-jeffery-hildebrand-hilcorp-oil-regulations
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Next is further response from the retired judges who raised the “fraud on the court” issue, then comes her next ruling. Stand by and watch this space.
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Obviously, they want to avoid discussing their sleazy Trump deal under oath, particularly in front of a judge who can sanction and discipline them. But it’s a rough look to hide behind Trump’s private lawyers rather than respond, and there’s every reason to believe the judge will notice.
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Remember: I know of no time in history when senior DOJ officials were accused of “fraud on the court.” Unthinkable. And they don’t even answer, but hide like rats? Not a good sign for the MAGA DOJ or for its sleazy top officials.
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Here’s what’s interesting. The judge in her order invited a response into (a) whether DOJ policies were violated; (b) whether the parties colluded and deceived the court; and (c) the client (IRS’s) defense memo. DOJ’s silence is really deafening here, in the wake of that.
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That could be US exports if the Orange Doofus wasn’t destroying US EV capacity so his corrupt fossil fuel donors can sell more gasoline.
link:https://apnews.com/article/china-autos-evs-exports-cars-53fab0e0f9f5f87a90b419727e1f294d
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Scum, it’s sometimes called. Just sayin’.
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Greed leads people down evil paths.
link:https://ecori.org/big-oil-makes-bank-on-dirty-dozen/
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Over again, Trump’s cases go to smithereens.
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A lotta my stuff in here — the bombs, the zettajoules — but they torched me on graphics. Bravo, NatGeo!!
link:https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/graphics/ocean-temperature-changes
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There’s a good and just fight to be had — and we better have it now, while there’s still time.
link:https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2026/06/16/climate-change-global-warming-democratic-party-trump-sheldon-whitehouse
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I was glad to join @wrwcri.bsky.social at today’s Woonasquatucket River Greenway ribbon cutting! Urban green infrastructure projects like these connect neighborhoods while strengthening our local economies and environment.
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If they’re spinning the Iran deal without showing any text, pretty good sign it’s worse than Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal.
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We’re all paying for climate change.
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Wow. Giving Trump credit for Ukraine’s victories after all he did for Putin. That’s some serious FOXing up.
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Now allegations of gross mismanagement and financial malfeasance at the Kennedy Center, on top of the failures of due diligence by the Center's Trump board already found in court. When does it stop?
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And yes, the spoilsports put up tarps to ruin the fun for everyone of seeing the name come down. Orange Snowflake needed protecting.
link:https://ew.com/donald-trump-name-removed-kennedy-center-livestream-11997461
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Newport Artillery Company celebrates Gaspee Days with a bang!
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Bye-bye coal — solar tops coal in U.S., and more to come. Clean costs less.
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No one has more fun in a parade than Joe McNamara and no one has better garb than Kasim Yarn.
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