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7. Or you can look at power contracts like Revolution Wind’s, whose offshore wind power by contract comes on our grid at 9 cents per kWh, into a grid that averages 18 cents per kWh.
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(Add enough clean power to the grid, and those big polluting units don’t run at all — because they cost too much.)
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6. It’s easy to prove that clean is cheaper: grids run the least expensive power first, and what they run first is clean power. When that runs out, they go up their “generation stack” to more-expensive fossil fuel units.
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Every blocked kilowatt of clean energy comes instead from fossil fuel. Customers’ rates go WAY up, and all that extra cost families pay goes to (cue drumroll) Trump’s corrupt fossil fuel donors. It’s on purpose.
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5. Electricity costs are slamming Americans, as a result of a not-so-covert Trump plan to stall or block inexpensive clean energy.
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Be prepared, is the motto. Truth-teller is the role. Which means telling it.
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4. Insurance meltdowns happen “gradually, then all at once.” When “all at once” hits (and it will), Democrats will want to have built a sturdy foundation of honesty and credibility to contrast with Republican and fossil-fuel lies.
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In Florida, 46% of Trump voters (yes, Trump voters!) see the link between their insurance meltdown and “climate change.” The public gets it. We push on an open door.
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3. The connection to climate change is obvious. 92% of Texans are concerned about home insurance cost; 66% see the link to “climate-driven extreme weather.”
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The economic pain, bad already, will widen and worsen. One warning is a $25 trillion hit to global real estate markets. That’s Crash-level stuff.
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2. Insurance meltdown cascades into mortgage markets and property values. Florida, first and worst into this mess, now leads the country in lost residential property value.
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Behind the cost impact is huge hassle factor, as insurers abandon customers and whole markets, and families suddenly face massive “get new insurance” problems.
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1. In some states, the top economic issue is the home insurance meltdown. Start with a big cost, add a huge increase, and you get big cost impact on families.
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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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Still, I’m glad Lagarde reiterated what we’ve been saying: “Alternative sources of energy offer the clearest path to minimizing the trade-offs between Europe’s energy-policy goals of security, sustainability and affordability.”
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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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Behind the home insurance crisis is a political corruption crisis that causes Republicans to ignore science that their own state universities teach.
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Fossil fuel spends billions on Republicans to ignore this problem, deny climate change, and protect “pollute-for-free” for fossil fuel.
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This is a cost nightmare, but it’s also a nuisance, hassle, worry and fraud nightmare. And it all begins with climate-driven weather extremes.
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Or dumped in state funds like Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance that paid ZERO to 74% of Hurricane Debby claimants. Some insurance.
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Or homeowners stranded with sketchy “pop-up” insurers that don’t pay, after all the major insurers left the market.
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Or a family scrambling for coverage after receiving a “notice of non-renewal,” or stuck paying for “forced place” insurance on their mortgage.
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Behind these brutal cost numbers are human stories: for instance, a young couple whose first home purchase fell apart over this.
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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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The damage to DHS was 100% Republican confusion and disarray.
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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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This is not just a dagger to family finances; it’s a price of corruption. Fossil fuel pays billions to Republicans to ignore all of this. So they do.
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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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Trump is killing U.S. auto competitiveness to pay back his big fossil fuel donors. Good thing he didn’t take big bucks from harness-makers. To compete internationally, we need to make competitive vehicles, not ones idiotically designed for maximum fuel consumption.
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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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