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“Project,” quadruple “dissent,” and no “respectfully” are a strong signal of being truly fed up. Deservedly.
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Today, the right-wing Supreme Court supermajority finished what it started over a decade ago – in Justice Kagan’s words, “a judicial project to destroy the Voting Rights Act.”
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The captured court is delivering for its fossil fuel captors.
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“We must also reflect on our shared responsibility to safeguard nature, our most precious and irreplaceable asset.” Thank you for your advocacy for our planet, Your Majesty.
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“We ignore at our own peril the fact that these natural systems, in other words, nature’s own economy, provide the foundation for our prosperity and our national security.” - King Charles III
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Note the common theme across DHS funding, the reconciliation bill, and 702 extension: all three are tangled up in internal Republican squabbling. This is NOT partisan division, this is Republican incompetence. Get the news right, please.
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Of course he is. This administration is run by corrupt fossil fuel billionaires and Zeldin is their obedient stooge. One more indicator of the depth of the corruption.
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/25/zeldin-cabinet-trump-epa-00887902
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Trump/Russia keeps happening in plain view.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/23/trump-putin-g20/
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Clean energy remains cheaper than fossil, and Trump’s war on clean energy (to help his fossil fuel donors) will keep hiking customer electricity costs.
link:https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2026/04/24/cost-of-building-us-gas-plants-spikes-66-report-says-00889658
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Coal keeps fading as renewables climb, even as Trump raises electricity costs by forcing expensive, polluting defunct coal plants back on line — part of his payoff (with your money) to his big fossil fuel donors.
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Blame this on the U.S. fossil fuel industry death-grip on Trump and Republicans. www.politico.eu/article/fran...
link:https://www.politico.eu/article/france-drops-climate-from-g7-environment-talks-appease-trump-administration-us/
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Thank you Thom Tillis for calling BS on this. (As did a federal judge, btw.)
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/04/24/justice-department-fed-powell/
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Guess who’s missing that market surge as Trump hobbles American EV progress? Trump is sending China an engraved invitation to stomp our domestic companies, all for his corrupt fossil fuel donors.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/20/electric-car-ev-sales-mainland-europe-petrol-prices-iran-war
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Poodle Patel writes the stuff himself.
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This is what happens when the corrupt fossil fuel industry’s emissions add zettajoules of excess heat to the oceans (look it up).
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Blanche is going to tire of this. It gets worse as Patel gets deposed under oath in the FBI agents’ lawsuits, and as he has to answer questions under oath in his own lawsuit. Wait til his detail is questioned under oath about his behavior.
link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/keystone-kash-patel-contradicts-own-lawsuit-in-car-crash-briefing/
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Under Trump, Republicans can’t get enough corruption. Bipartisan shell corporation disclosure legislation gets sacrificed on the Oligarch Altar.
link:https://www.law360.com/articles/2467623/house-panel-votes-to-gut-corporate-transparency-act
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Vengeance for SPLC putting the Klan out of business?
link:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/southern-poverty-law-center-says-targeted-trump-administration-rcna341237
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Trump: “Nobody’s laughing!” World: “If we’re not laughing it’s because we’re horrified and disgusted.”
link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/fragile-donald-trump-79-insists-no-ones-laughing-at-him-in-all-caps-rant/
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Of course the roots of the “shadow docket” are in service to the fossil fuel billionaires who captured the Court. 🧵
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html
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Pity that all he can do is read it, and not take it in.
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/17/trump-scripture-angering-christians-00879747
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Not enough to pollute for free; fossil fuel gets Republicans AGs to provide taxpayer-funded free legal service. Ghoulish levels of greed.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/climate/hawaii-climate-lawsuit-dismissed.html
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When you’re on both sides, you can dictate the result. This is the DOJ “ice cream window” that pays off MAGA lawsuits, on conflict-of-interest steroids.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/17/trump-tax-leak-lawsuit/
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Trump/Russia rears its ugly head again.
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Stooge Patel getting sloshed at the “Poodle Room” in Vegas? You simply cannot make this up!! Too good. Start the clock.
quote:at://did:plc:nyxviptfyic2lvuorkr5yy3y/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjq5cqrkbf26
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Trump is extracting money from families’ budgets and pumping it to his fossil fuel donors.
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Glad to celebrate the opening of the South Shore Station 3 EMS Facility in South Kingstown today. This new station is expected to save lives by cutting emergency response times by half for the southern part of town.
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Worthy piece, particularly describing Trump’s dark blather as “the photographic negative of the Sermon on the Mount.”
link:https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-meets-his-match-in-pope-leo-7558687a
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Trump tries to stop this low-cost solar power, so electric grids have to go to expensive dirty fossil plants, raising consumer prices, by (PUNCHLINE) driving money from regular ratepayers to Trump’s big fossil fuel donors. But clean energy keeps winning!!
link:https://www.utilitydive.com/news/solar-wind-gas-coal-eia-energy-outlook/817315/
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More MAGA mischief: two MAGA Trump judges again interrupt a contempt inquiry into MAGA DOJ, before the proceedings even take place. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/us/politics/deportation-flights-trump-contempt.html
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PolluterPage prints piece calling Trump “desperate, deranged”; administration “losers,” and war as “ill-conceived, ill-planned, ill-executed and, so far, failing.”
link:https://www.wsj.com/opinion/for-now-at-least-the-iran-war-seems-to-be-failing-832a0e60
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It’s true that a president with significant mental health issues would leave adversaries “on edge.” As America loses.
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/us/politics/trump-mental-fitness-25th-amendment.html
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Trump would rather fight with the Pope than lower costs. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/12/trump-criticizes-pope-leo/
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Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. Decency and democracy win BIG! Trump/Vance/Rubio big LOSERS. Hurray Hungary!!
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Well, at least they’re self-aware. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
link:https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-promises-mass-pardons-to-staff-before-leaving-office-d7274d32
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I wish I didn’t feel that Trump’s team were the dumbest three in the room. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/04/12/iran-us-talks-ceasefire-vance/
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Great news! Fossil fuel corruption can’t stop cheaper, cleaner, more reliable renewables, even with Trump’s little orange thumb pressing down on the scales to pay off his big fossil fuel donors. www.newsweek.com/americas-pow...
link:https://www.newsweek.com/americas-power-supply-just-flipped-in-surprising-direction-11805184
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Hooo-weee, those creepy fossil fuel billionaires are going to take good care of this little stooge for life! I guess everyone has their price. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/04/08/epa-lee-zeldin-heartland-speech/
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Run into ground by incompetents and looters who now need to close the Center for “repairs” as cover. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/04/10/kennedy-center-layoffs-trump-closure/
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And this needed to be brought up now because . . . ???
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Polluters celebrate “consequential” Trump EPA. “Consequences” are dirtier water and air and rapidly worsening economic dangers. Sick stuff.
link:https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/09/at-climate-contrarian-gathering-allies-urge-trump-to-keep-zeldin-at-epa-00864114
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Iran and our Gulf allies seem to think Iran won.
link:https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/gulf-states-fear-an-emboldened-iran-after-trumps-cease-fire-a7becf78?st=Sm4bL6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Well done, Brown! You can’t do better than that!! www.brown.edu/news/2026-04...
link:https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-04-08/hugh-clements-public-safety-chief
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Kash Patel’s “public” grand jury testimony was anything but.
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Enough climate hushing. Democrats need to fight.
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The fossil fuel industry is probably the biggest fraud apparatus in the history of mankind. It should be joyous to take that machine down. #EEODayRI
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Swap Putin for Orban here: “Orbán has been with the president for a very long time. He was with him through the trials and tribulations, through the entire campaign.”
link:https://www.politico.eu/article/last-throw-of-maga-dice-for-viktor-orban-jd-vance/
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An aged and compromised Commander-in-Chief is losing his grip on reality, increasing dangers at home and for our brave troops overseas. Threatening to inflict massive civilian casualties is un-American; the stuff of cruel dictators. Republicans should no longer stand idly by.
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An administration official is calling Trump "bloodthirsty, like a mad dog." When will Republican spines of foam stiffen?
link:https://www.axios.com/2026/04/07/trump-iran-deadline-bridges-power-plants